Posts filed under Social Networks

03.14.2008

Free Flickr Pro and Wi-Fi with AT&T Broadband DSL

If you pay for AT&T / SBC / Yahoo (whatever the hell they’re calling it today) DSL Broadband, you have a free Pro subscription to Flickr (normally $24.95/yr). Among the benefits, you get unlimited storage and unlimited uploads which means you can archive your full high resolution photos (and let friends download those high resolution [...]

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09.28.2007

Learning Psychology and Entrepreneurship with Facebook

I was invited to sit in on the first ever college class on Facebook: Creating Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook taught by Dr. BJ Fogg from Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and Dave McClure of 500 Hats. With over 100 people registered for the new course, even a new location change didn’t [...]

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09.27.2007

Being Net Savvy: Part 1

Last month, I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Fall Focus Session titled Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World. (Educause is “a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” Educause is also the sole registrar for .edu domains.) The focus session [...]

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08.16.2007

Facebook Recruiting

This past week, I received a Facebook message from someone looking to hire software engineers for a startup. The person noticed I’m in computing and was hoping that I would have a referral in my network. The incentive… $10k! I’ve heard that startups in the Valley have been really concerned with hiring the best people [...]

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07.25.2007

Facebook Apps and Teenage Girls

I first heard about Facebook Apps at the first NewTeeVee Pier Screening (two months ago). I had run into a tech reporter I knew from the San Jose Mercury News. She filled me in about the major Facebook announcement during the keynote from that night’s event dubbed f8, where CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg announced [...]

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07.24.2007

Why Give Virtual Gifts

Two weeks ago I received a slinky as a gift, but it wasn’t real; I had received a second virtual gift within the realm of Facebook and someone sent it to me anonymously. It seems like virtual items wouldn’t be that appealing to a lot of people. The item doesn’t exist in the real world, [...]

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